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DE3S 1 E WE72ELL U OF ORE NEWSPAPER LIB EUGENE OR 07403 School board discusses so orts program expense The Morrow County School Board adopted policy of "gradual development" in termi of Incorporating girl' alhlvtici Into the curriculum in the county at Hi Monday meeting at Boardman. The board decided to keep pace with the league ' The decision came after a review of a survey of athletic cosli in its district's schools. Board member, John Mat hews, pointed out that the time will come when the district's budget will not pass and cuts will have to be made. Costs and lack of facilities and staff are the determining factors in how far each school goes with the girl's program However, several programs for girls have gone into operation in the Pioneer Memorial Picnic Sunday The 22nd annual Morrow County Pioneer Memorial Picnic will be held Sunday, May 25 at the Fair Pavilion in lleppner. ' , Registration will begin at 11 30 a m supervised by the Soropliinist Club. The pro gram will open at 12 45 with a memorial service honoring Ihe county's dead This ser vice will be conducted by the Heppner Legion post No 87 with Grace Steers. Po:t Cam mamler in charge. This reunion will be the kic k oft for the Bicentennial celebrution in Morrow County Mike Sweeney will tie master of ceremonies and is also the local Bicentennial chairman lone 4-H national Clen Griffith, lone, has been selected lor National 4 H honors and a trip to National 4 II Congress in Chicago this fall, according to Mike Ho well. Morrow County 4 H Agent At the same tune. Griffith was selected as a slate finalist for Ihe Alpha Gamma Rho national college scholarship Nominations for the national awards trip are made from records submitted to the state 4 II Office, with final selection made in September when completed 4 II records are again submitted. . Griffith was selected for work completed in the tractor club, and his national award would be in Petroleum Power He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, George Griffith, lone, and has been an active i H memtwr In tractor and livestock projects LA GLENN GRIFFITH last two years in the county's schools Athletics cost the district $58,450 in the past year. That figure was projected to climb to $82,270 for 1975 78. The largest amount of that budget Is for salary which roughly amounts to half of the total cost. The board Indicated they would be watching two dif ferent school districts to see what direction might be taken in the future. Condon has indicated that some boys athletics will be cut in order to bring girls sports up to an equal level and still remain within the budget. It has been rumored that Pilot Rock will develop a girls program equal to the boys program regardless of the cost. The buffet luncheon will be served at I p m The luncheon will be prepared by Ihe school cooks Families attending are asked to bring pot lurk dishes to add to Ihe menu. Many organization aie contributing to Ihe dinner. The covered wagon that has been on display at Lloyd's Center in Portland will be on display at Ihe reunion. This wa(!n will represent Oregon in the Pennsylvania pilgri mage which will cross the continent this year This group plans to camp overnight at Cecil on July 15 Special events are being planned lor the visit on this section of Ihe Oregon Trail boy wins honors He seived as a teen leader in Ihe lone Tractor Club As a stale nominee (or Ihe Alpha Gamma Rlio National Scholarship his I ecords w ill be submitted lor consideration wilh those of other state winners National 4 II Club Congress is held each fall in Chicago, during Thanksgiving Holiday. Usl year Morrow County was represented at Ihe Congress by Karen Richards, Irrigon, who won the trip for her swine project. "Grillilh is Ihe first national awards nominee in Petroleum Power ever selected from Morrow County, as far as we know'' staled Howell. "It is a great experience for the 4 H member and we are certainly happy and proud when Mor row County 4 H members have the honor of attending." In other business Kenneth Broadbent.of Boardman, was elected to fill the unexpired board term vacated by resigning board member Jerry Peck. Broadbent has been a member of the Board man Irrigon Advisory Com mittee. The board accepted the resignation of Riverside coach Gail Enright, who will take a position at Cove. Four teach ers were hired. Linda Johnson of lleppner was hired to the hulf time kindergarten posi tion at lone. Jeannie Howell of lleppner was hired to fill the hall-time home economics position at lone. Kathryn lloskins of lleppner was hired to be the special reading leather at lone. At the A. C. THE Ay ilPj il 11 Mj il iLlVlJiliu) Vol. 92, NO. 14 lleppner merchants will award prizes for the oldest pioneer and for the one coming Ihe farthest distance. Mr and Mrs. Elmer Steers. Mr and Mrs Sam Sleers and Grace Buschke are co chairmen for this year's reunion. Burglary charges dismissed Charges against Richard Ellis ' Hick" Petty John, which had been (tending in the llrppner Justice Court, have been dismissed upon Ihe million ol Dennis I) Doherty. District Attorney Petty john had been arrested in Feb 21. IT" and charged with being an accomplice In Ihe burglary ol Murray's Itcxall Ding Si die which m i lin ed during the night ol Feb 21 IMierty explained thai Ihe charge was bases) primarily on circumstancial evidence and thai Ihe case has been presented to Ihe Grand Jury The role ol the Grand jury, which is composed of seven lay citizens, is to consider criminal cases and decide w Mother prosecul ion should go any further. No one may be tried upon a felony charge unless he, has either been indicted by Ihe Grand Jury or had a preliminary hearing in which the magistrate rules thai he should be held to answer the charge. In Petty john's case, the Grand Jury declined to return an indict ment Doherty staled that the police investigation revealed thai a juvenile has confessed to the burglary and has assumed full responsibility. The Juvenile's case has been disposed of In Juvenile court. SCHOOL RFl'NION PLANNED The second lleppner School Reunion I for all classes) will be held August 16. 1975 from 9 a m. to 5 p m. at the Heppner High School. Anyone knowing name or address changes of class mates, relatives or friends should rail or write Carlita L. Marquardt, Box S82, Lexing ton, Or , phone 989 8476. INSTALLATION DI E State Representative Jack Sumner will be Installed Grind Master of til Oregon Lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, May 23 In Klamath Falls. Attending the ceremony will be his parents Mr. and Mrs Cal Sumner and his sister, Mrs. Paul Hansen, Heppner. Houghton school Susan Jones from Hermiston was hired to teach the combination second and third grade class. This will be Miss Jones' first teaching position. The board ' also hired the classified em ployees for the district schools Joan McElligott was hired as manager of the lone Swimming Pool. It was point ed out that the pool does not pay Its way and will cost the district about $700 this year. However, members expressed the feeling that the service provided to the community was well worth the money spent. The board also approved the use of two buses to transport Irrigon and Boardman child- TV Cooperalive meeting considers channel 12 Tuesday. May 13. the annual meeting of the local cable television Cooperative was held at the conference room of the Bank of Eastern Oregon. The annual financial state ment was submitted by the board of directors to the membership present for re view and discussion. The statement showed an operat. ing loss for the past fiscal year ol 12.70. 1)2 after depreciation. The main topic of discussion was a request by Ihe member ship to place KPTV Channel 12. Portland, full time on the system To do this, it will be necessary to utilize Ihe trans lator signal of the North Sherman TV Coip situated across Ihe Columbia River liom Hultis overlooking the John Day Dam The board explained lleppner was really out ol the transmission range ol this translator and only a marginal picture quality could lie received The board plans to order the necessary special equipment and install it as soon as il is received, and the necessary permission receiv ed liom Ihe Federal Com munications Commission. This could lake a few months according to Robert C. Kelly the outgoing president of the cNixTutive President Kelly stated he would be gone from Heppner Fishing opens Saturday Fishing season for this area will open this Saturday, May 24 Siime waters opened last month and the balance will be open from this Saturday until closing. Game Commission person nel reported that Rock Creek was slocked with 2,500 fish from 8 to 10 inches in length. Planting started below Anson Wright Park. I'pper Rhea Creek and Willow Creek were planted on Tuesday of this week. Each area received 1,000 legal fish. Cutsforth Pond was also planted with 1.000 fish. Due to the prolonged period of ice on Penland Lake, substantial loss occurred. Fishing prospects are uncer tain but some fish should still remain in the lake. The road to i Penland is muddy and the campground has mud and snow. Pull Prairie has been pro ducing some good fish up to 14 inches. Camp S will also produce some good ratchet. Fishing for crappie and baa In the Columbia River should produce some excellent catches. Cr apples could run at large at 14 inches. Anglers art advised lo consult the regulations about limits and special regulations in certain waters. ren to Hermiston for two weeks during the summer for swimming lessons. Last year 88 children took part in the , program. A screening committee was appointed to screen applica tions for the assistant superin tendent's position. Mick Tolar , of A. C. Houghton, Jim Bier of lleppner High School and , board members Pauline Bier, ,'ohn Mathews and Irvin Rauch were named to the school board. I Don Cole and Mick Tolar reported on the success of the Outdoor School for sixth grade students. Fifty-two students from Heppner Elementary ; attended the first session at Tupper Guard Station. In the Heppner, OR ., May 22, 1975 for a year so would not be a ' candidate for re-election to Ihe board of directors. Winn Crist, manager of the Elks Club, w as unanimously elected lo re place Mr. Kelly as a member ol Ihe board Present board members are Riley Munkers, Conley Lan ivam, E. E. Gonty, L.E. Dak. and Winn Crist. The board will elect officers for the ensuing year at the next board meeting. School house arrives today The Democrat Gulch, a one-room school house was moved into Heppner today. The 18 ft by 24 ft. school house was located on the Schrivner property in the eight Mile area. The property was recently purchased by Jim Farley who donated the school house lo Ihe Historical Socie ty . Plans are presently under way to have the sc hool placed on city properly near the museum. Orville Cutsforth is in charge of the project (.nmwwHn ri - .u. i .... 11 . i. .uii. hii.hu , n i tw -Tm f ) J ;, " .-.'T"' T -...'!'., .. ... .,' ' 7" Hy -J ) f 1 J he k sj. I! V 7 J - V;vi .-'M :.;." " : V '-V- I 1 K 'V. , . A , --v ' . " :- I -v ' N-r-y V. I second week .forty students came from A. C. Houghton Elementary. Three schools from Hermiston also used the Guard Station for Outdoor School programs. Board members asked the administrators how much use they were deriving from the educational television piped inlo the schools. Poor recep tion last year has discouraged the use that had been antici pated. Largest use is made by teachers in grades under the sixth. This is due in large part to the types of program oflcrings It was concluded thai the program had not lived up to its expectations. The principals fell that the use of video tapes on the video tape 54 of local spending is for education What price education in Morrow County? How do local governmental expenditures tor school operations compare with those in other com munities? A report recently released by ihe Department of Com merce, following a nationwide survey, shows that education is. by far. the most costly element in local budgets. No less than 54 per cent of Ihe expenditures - made in Morrow County by local government agencies are for school const i uction and main tenance, for teachers salaries, lor equipment and for various other expenses connected with school operations. Il runs considerably more than this in some part of Ihe country and somewhat less in others. On Ihe average, throughout Ihe l ulled States, local gov ernments have been alloling 41 (K-r cent of their budgets for education. In the state of Oregon. .16 per cent has been earmarked for that purpose. I-ocal governments provide only a portion of Ihe education bill. The rest comes from player and monitors and taping of evening programs for later use in the class room received extensive use. The long range planning committee will meet May 29at the district office in Lexington at 8 p.m. to assess the results of opinion gathering efforts in regard to building expansion of Ihe various schools in the county. Board member Jack Sum ner was absent from the meeting. Superintendent Doherty had been in contact with Sumner on Monday. House Bill 2629. introduced by Sumner was expected to come onto the floor of the house on Tuesday and Sumner told Doherty he thought the bill Federal and slate sources. The data was compiled by ihe Social and Economic Statistics Administration in Ihe firsl study of the kind since l!x;7. It surveys the finances of local communities every five years. Of ihe total expenditures made by governmental bodies in Morrow County, w hich were equivalent to $611 for every man. woman and child in the population. $331 went for education, it shows. By way of comparison, the outlay for education at the local level elsewhere in the United States was $234 per capita The average was $281 NOTICE Monday, May 2 is Memorial Day. S All city, county, state and federal offices will be closed as well as most business firms. Gaietle-Times correspondents are reminded that Iheir news must be hand delivered on Monday or mailed to reach the newspaper the previous Saturday if it is to appear in the issue of May 29. Advertisers will be contacted earlier next week P because of the Memorial Day holiday. The Boardman Harvest Festival Court, from the left, Tammy femliska, Melanie Rayner and Terry Hodson. The court was recently chosen to reign over the harvest Festival and Boat Races to be held in Boardman Sept. (I. This weekend they will attend a luncheon with the Umatilla Sage Riders at Hermiston. (Not pictured is Lori Schnell, the fourth member of the court.) would pass The bill would make provision for induslnes being developed within the school district to pay taxes before they began actual operations. This bill would have an impact on Morrow County because of Ihe indus trial developments which will bring added stress on the district's facilities during Ihe time Ihe industries are being built . The June meeting of the Morrow County School Board will be held Monday. June 16. at 8 p.m. at Ihe district office in dxinglnn. 15c in Oregon. The magnitude of educa tion's impact on the American economy is indicated in re ports released by the National Education Association and the I S Office of Education - They estimate that evpenws. in the current school year will amount to $108 billion, which is about 8 per cent of our gross national product. Some $68 billion of il w ill be going to elementary and secondary schools and $40 billion to institutions of higher educa tion Involved are 58 6 million students and over 3 million teachers
